Preface to Volume I

The following pages grew out of a series of Bible Readings on the Holy Spirit at the Old Orchard Convention of 1894.

The Convention requested their publication. In their present form they bear a very slight resemblance to the original Bible Readings; for they have since been amplified and repeated in New York, during the past winter and then published at the time, from week to week.

The busy life of the author has left him little leisure for elaborate revision. They do not make any pretension to literary style or profound scholarship. They will, perhaps, be found to contain a fairly exhaustive development of the unfolding of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament. This line of truth is, at least, new, and will, we trust, prove suggestive of further study in the same direction. Our most earnest desire and prayer is that they may become living bread to many of the hungry hearts whom the Holy Ghost is gathering in this wonderful age and preparing for the coming of our Lord.